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im sitting here crossing my fingers. A tad nervous. As I have stuff that has been done at walmart. And lets face it, when you start getting into the bigger things the prices add up quick so it isn't like five or ten dollar 5x7's or 8x10's or whatever here.. I have someone stopping to get it for me. And my fingers are crossed, nervous. Especially since Im not seeing them before I paid for them. I HOPE they didn't come out like crap. I really HOPE.
And im already wondering what the refund policy is if they come out like crap or they screwed them up..
 
to be fair, I get a lot of my Kodak/Fuji/Agfa stuff done at Boots (british "drugstore") and they gave OK results - Prints can be a bit iffy (only sometimes) but the processing was good - dont let them touch B&W though (even if its C41), my roll of XP2 ended in disaster. For common colour brands, its usually fine, and well priced. Generally a screwup = 1 roll of own brand film free.
 
to be fair, I get a lot of my Kodak/Fuji/Agfa stuff done at Boots (british "drugstore") and they gave OK results - Prints can be a bit iffy (only sometimes) but the processing was good - dont let them touch B&W though (even if its C41), my roll of XP2 ended in disaster. For common colour brands, its usually fine, and well priced. Generally a screwup = 1 roll of own brand film free.
This is my first time using walmart. Can you tell? Im on eggshells.
Im trying to think positive right now, someone told me they have good machines and the same machines other places use. I don't know if that is true. But for the moment it makes me feel better...while I wait.
 
The machines at the equivilent here in the UK are Fuji/Agfa/Kodak minilabs. There is some manual work too i think jusdging by the changing bag (They must load the [metal?] reels manually, as ive seen scrathed emulsion before) - The prints are actually scans btw (at least for me) but are high res, and on proper quality photo print paper, not at all bad compared to optical enlargements.

Crappy (low res) scans I took of some prints from such a lab:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/fe378f9bf0094da2fbcc5dc4cb2afd87/tumblr_mw4cdtIqKD1t17dhvo9_1280.png
http://24.media.tumblr.com/85f406352a98c3db3134876da769e3d4/tumblr_mw4cdtIqKD1t17dhvo1_1280.png

So yeah, the prints were pretty good.
 
The machines at the equivilent here in the UK are Fuji/Agfa/Kodak minilabs. There is some manual work too i think jusdging by the changing bag (They must load the [metal?] reels manually, as ive seen scrathed emulsion before) - The prints are actually scans btw (at least for me) but are high res, and on proper quality photo print paper, not at all bad compared to optical enlargements.

Crappy (low res) scans I took of some prints from such a lab:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/fe378f9bf0094da2fbcc5dc4cb2afd87/tumblr_mw4cdtIqKD1t17dhvo9_1280.png
http://24.media.tumblr.com/85f406352a98c3db3134876da769e3d4/tumblr_mw4cdtIqKD1t17dhvo1_1280.png

So yeah, the prints were pretty good.
sounds encouraging. Thanks.
Did some cropping too. . Not a big deal but I took quite a bit out of one specifically.....
I got some doubts. Always looks okay on screen till you print them.
that wouldn't be their mistake though.
 
Have you heard of 'soft-proofing'?

Many image editing applications allow you to load the print macines ICC profile and display the image on your computer so it looks close to what a print will look like made by that print machine.
Some consumer grade print labs, like Costco, Mpix, Nations Photo Lab, etc have the ICC profiles for their machines available for download.

Here is a group of tutorials that may be helpful - Tutorials on Color Management & Printing

For even more in-depth information:
The Digital Print: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing
The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adob...ly/prophotographer/pdfs/pscs3_renderprint.pdf - Rendering the Print - An Adobe White Paper
 
Have you heard of 'soft-proofing'?
Many image editing applications allow you to load the print macines ICC profile and display the image on your computer so it looks close to what a print will look like made by that print machine. Some consumer grade print labs, like Costco, Mpix, Nations Photo Lab, etc have the ICC profiles for their machines available for download.

I was under the impression we were talking about analog?
 
I've sadly had fairly decent results with Walgreens. Never used Walmart for film (haven't been in one in years), but there's a place loacally that will develop and give medium sized scans on DVD for a grand total of $5. I think they know me by name now. :lol:
 

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